jasper

plural jaspers

1. countableobsoleteuncountableAny bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
2. countableuncountableAn opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
3. countableuncountableJasperware pottery.

present singular third person jaspers · participle present jaspering · participle past jaspered · past jaspered

1. transitiveTo decorate with, or as if with, jasper.

plural jaspers

1. UKWest CountrycolloquialSomersetA wasp.
2. USslangA person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.

   Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper

   1975, “Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)”, in Nighthawks at the Diner, performed by Tom Waits

   3 more examples

   And list'nin to some big out-a-town jasper / Hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin' / Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!

   1957, Meredith Willson, “Ya Got Trouble”, in The Music Man

   "I stood there through almost an hour of it before they called Rooster Cogburn to the stand. I had guessed wrong as to which one he was, picking out a younger and slighter man with a badge on his shirt. And I was surprised when an old one-eyed jasper that was built along the lines of Grover Cleveland went up and was sworn."

   1968, Charles Portis, “True Grit”, in The Saturday Evening Post

   “That jasper,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!”

   2006, Thomas Pynchon, “The Light over the Ranges”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 110

3. AppalachiaA stranger.

alternative Caspar · alternative Gaspar · alternative Casper · alternative Kaspar · alternative Kasper · alternative Kosper · alternative Cosper · alternative Gosper

1. A male given name from Old Persian.

   Her husband is...let me see...oh yes, he's Lord Jasper Jayne. His name sounds like the hero of a servant's novelette, but he doesn't look like that. He looks like a chucker-out in a back-street pub.

   1920, St. John Greer Ervine, Changing Winds, Macmillan, page 225

2. A surname.
3. One of the Magi, also known as Caspar.
4. A placename:
   1. A town in Alberta, Canada.
   2. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Jasper National Park: a national park in Alberta, Canada.
   3. A city, the county seat of Walker County, Alabama.
   4. A small city, the county seat of Newton County, Arkansas.
   5. A city, the county seat of Hamilton County, Florida.
   6. A city, the county seat of Pickens County, Georgia.
   7. A city, the county seat of Dubois County, Indiana.
   8. A city in Pipestone County and Rock County, Minnesota.
   9. A city in Jasper County, Missouri.
   10. A town in Steuben County, New York.
   11. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Ohio.
   12. An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
   13. A town, the county seat of Marion County, Tennessee.
   14. A city, the county seat of Jasper County, Texas.
   15. An unincorporated community in Lee County, Virginia.
   16. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Jasper Township.
   17. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Jasper County.

       Synonyms: County of Jasper

   18. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Jasper Township.

       Synonyms: Township of Jasper